Elara's POV
I could feel it, not just through scent, but through something deeper now. The presence inside me tightened slightly, not pulling or warning in panic, but focusing, narrowing in on something ahead that didn’t belong.
Kael didn’t slow the horse any further, but he didn’t push forward either. We held our position, the pack settling around us without needing instruction, shifting from movement to readiness so smoothly it almost felt instinctive.
“Show me,” he said quietly.
I closed my eyes for a second, not to block anything out, but to reach.
The difference was immediate. Before, sensing had always been external, something I had to search for and interpret, but now it felt closer, like I didn’t need to look outward so much as allow something inside me to extend.
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